A superb single volume, containing two Civil War era complete volumes of The American Phrenological Journal, with specific reference to many military persons, Civil War soldiers, the Union, etc., A fascinating phrenological examination of Joseph Cinque, leader of the slave revolt aboard the Amistad. See below for fuller description of contents. 

The American Phrenological Journal and Life Illustrated, a Repository of Science, Literature, and General Intelligence. Devoted to Phrenology, Psychology, Education, Mechanism, Agriculture, and to all those Progressive Measures which are Calculated to Reform, Elevate, and Improve Mankind. Embellished with Numerous Engravings. Volume XXXV. January to June, 1862. New York. Fowler and Wells. 144pp.

Contents include: The Phrenological Character of Commodore Charles Wilkes [who Captured Mason and Slidell]; Ugliness and its Doctors [Baldness, Corsets, Freckles, Bust Enhancement, etc.]; Modern Implements of War [superb engravings]; Phrenology in the Pulpit; Review of "The Rebellion Record;" Illustrated Advert for.a Constipation Syringe for Self-Enemas; A Convert to Hygienic Truth; Phrenological Character and Biography of Colonel Samuel Colt [With Engraving; Inventory of Colt's Revolver];  Extensive Poem, "The Muster of the North - A Ballad of 1861" by John Savage; On the Death of Willie Wallace Lincoln, Son of President Abraham Lincoln [the death blamed on the people around him not being phrenologically sensitive]; Captain John Ericsson's Floating Battery [illustrated]; Taking Chloroform [A Poem; Fascinating Sort of Absinthe or Opium Fever Dream] by T. Hulbert Underwood; Personal Influence by Henry Ward Beecher; Phrenological Character of Commodore Andrew H. Foote [with Engraving]; Phrenological Character of Harrawauky, Chief of New Zealand [with engraving]; The Devil's University; What is Religion? by Henry Ward Beecher; A Champion Washing Machine [with engraving]; A Philosophic "Contraband" [Conversation with a Philosophical "Darkey" who Escaped the South from the Battle of Fort Donelson]; A Cure for Stammering / Stuttering; etc. etc. 

A superb phrenological examination of Cinques [Joseph Cinque], leader of the Slave revolt onboard the Amistad. 

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The American Phrenological Journal and Life Illustrated, a Repository of Science, Literature, and General Intelligence. Devoted to Phrenology, Psychology, Education, Mechanism, Agriculture, and to all those Progressive Measures which are Calculated to Reform, Elevate, and Improve Mankind. Embellished with Numerous Engravings. Volume XXXV. July to December, 1862. New York. Fowler and Wells. 136pp.

Contents include: The Phrenological Character of General Ormsby McKnight Mitchell [with engraving]; Harmony of Phrenology and the Bible [Illustrated Series; Contrasting White Literary Structure with American Indian Non-Literate Structure]; Hatred - Its Laws and Uses by Henry Ward Beecher; The Phrenological Character and Biography of the Honorable Owen Lovejoy; The Phrenological Character of Notorious [Negro] Murderer; The Phrenological Character of Major-General John A. Dix; The Phrenological Character of President Martin Van Buren; The Irishman in Ireland and America; A New Triumph in Photography [Thomas Bolton]; An Idiotic Girl; The Phrenological Character of Brigadier General J. J. F. Mansfield; The Phrenological Character of Horace Greeley; Phrenological Character of General Jesse L. Reno; Tobacco a Foe to Matrimony; The Phrenological Character of the Esquimaux; Advert for Palmer Arms & Legs for Civil War Soldiers; etc. etc., 

A good + to very good copy in early half calf with raised bands and marbled boards. Some occasional marginal tide marks and rather minor foxing. A very nice volume.